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Aydar's captive fighter, which spent two weeks, received 17.5 years of strict regime in the Russian Federation

To spread: Ukrainian serviceman Alexei Mozarov, who was called up in the spring of 2024 to the Armed Forces and who served for two weeks in the battalion "Aydar", was captured by Russian, and a year he was sentenced to 17. 5 years of strict regime. The relevant decision was made by the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, reports "Mediazon". According to the resource, Mozarov has thrown teaching terrorism and participation in a terrorist organization.

These are the standard accusations that the Russian investigation is captured by Azov and Aydar. The prosecutors argued that Alex voluntarily "joined" Aydar, and then "acquired knowledge, practical skills", as well as studied "Rules for handling weapons and explosive devices". During the testimony, Mozarov said that after the call he got to the training center, where they were given "from the machine gun, from the machine gun once to try". On June 1, 2024 he was taken to the Aidar service.

There, according to the case file, the fighter passed a five -day training, and already on June 10 he was sent to the front of the village of Ivanovo, Donetsk region. On June 14, Alexey came under a shelling in an abandoned house and "came out, gave up because there were no options. " Mozarov is not the first Ukrainian prisoner of war to which a strict sentence was issued for defending his country.

Just two weeks ago, Roman Otaman, a native of Lviv region and a fighter of the Azov regiment, who was also in Russian captivity, was sentenced to 20 years of strict regime. The Ataman case came to court in September 2025, together with cases of 17 Ukrainians accused of terrorist articles. In March this year, a military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 23 Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Azov brigade for "violent seizure of power" and "Organization of activity of a terrorist organization".